Re: [malware-list] TALPA - a threat model? well sorta.

From: Theodore Tso
Date: Thu Aug 14 2008 - 15:17:52 EST


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:29:45PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
>
> is i_version an on disk think? didn't realize that and just assumed it
> was in in core thing. I wouldn't have an issue sending i_version to the
> userspace scanner for them to use as they like.
>

It's on-disk for some filesystems, in order to support NFsv4 advanced
caching semantics (which means i_version has to survive a reboot,
which means it has to be on disk). It is *not* on disk for ext3,
although it is for ext4.

- Ted
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